This week was supposed to be a chance to celebrate their anniversary, as well as a chance for Kurt and Melissa Cochran to visit Melissa’s parents, who work on a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints mission in England.

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As they walked across London’s Westminster Bridge near the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, the last day of their vacation, the Utah couple’s celebratory trip turned to tragedy. In a flash, the Cochrans became two of the first pedestrians struck by an SUV driven by a 52-year-old British attacker carrying out what appears to be the latest ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in Europe.

Kurt Cochran was killed in the attack and his wife was seriously wounded, a family member said.

“SO, SO SORRY to inform everyone – Kurt has passed away from the injuries he received during the attack in London,” Melissa Cochran’s sister, Sara Payne-Mcfarland, posted on Facebook. “My sister, Melissa, has a broken leg, a broken rib, and a cut on her head. While we are glad she survived, our hearts are broken and will never be the same after losing our dear uncle, brother-in-law, father. Kurt, you are a HERO, and we will never forget you.”

The alleged attacker, Khalid Masood, left three people dead in central London and dozens wounded before he was fatally shot by police Wednesday, officials said.

On Thursday, Cochran’s death was memorialized in a tweet from President Donald Trump that offered “prayers” and “condolences.”

A GoFundMe page that aims to raise money to help Melissa Cochran while she’s unable to work has collected more than $15,000 toward its $50,000 goal.

“Melissa & Kurt are self-employed, having built a recording studio business from the ground up over the last 10 years,” the page states. “During that time they donated their recording and sound skills to the Summerfest celebration in Bountiful, Utah, to local school productions, and many other worthy causes.”

In a statement released by the church, Clint Payne, Melissa’s brother and Kurt’s brother-in-law, said: “Our family is heartbroken to learn of the death of our brother- and son-in-law, Kurt W Cochran.” The statement called Cochran “a good man” and a “loving husband.”

“We express our gratitude to the emergency and medical personnel who have cared for them and ask for your prayers on behalf of Melissa and our family,” the statement added.

“Kurt will be greatly missed, and we ask for privacy as our family mourns and as Melissa recovers from her injuries.”

On Facebook, friends remembered Kurt as a grounded man and devoted husband, one who was posting photos of his trip abroad in the days before his death.

“RIP brother,” Chris Helterbrand, one of Cochran’s former roommates and friends, wrote on Facebook. “I’ll always remember you for your intelligence and kindness. You were one of the good ones.”

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The other two people killed:

Police Officer Keith Palmer, 48, was on duty protecting Parliament Wednesday when he was stabbed to death.

He had been a member of the parliamentary and diplomatic protection forces for 15 years, and a soldier in the Royal Artillery before that.

Honoring Palmer, Prime Minister Theresa May said he was “a husband, a father … he was every inch a hero.

“His actions will never be forgotten.”

Conservative lawmaker James Cleverly tweeted that he was “heartbroken,” having known Palmer for 25 years. He said they served in the military together.

“A lovely man, a friend,” Cleverly wrote.

Charlton Athletic Football Club said Palmer was a loyal and long-time fan of the team and “a familiar face” at its London stadium, The Valley. As a tribute, the club placed one of its red-and-white scarves on his seat in the East Stand where he sat “for many years.” It said the scarf will stay there until the team’s next game at the stadium on April 4.

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Aysha Frade, a British national whose mother is Spanish, was one of two people killed on the bridge.

In the northwestern Spanish town of Betanzos, where her mother was born and her two sisters run an English-language school, the mayor said: “The whole town is shocked.”

Although Frade, 43, was born and lived in London, she spent weeks every summer in Betanzos visiting relatives, said Ramon Garcia Vazquez, mayor of the town of 13,000 people in Spain’s Galicia region.

“The family of Aysha was very well known in the village and loved by everybody here,” he told The Associated Press.

He said her two elder sisters, Silvia and Michelle, flew to London early Thursday. Betanzos town hall held a minute’s silence for the family at noon Thursday and the mayor announced three days of mourning, canceling all official activities in the town.

Frade worked as an administrator at the DLD College — a school in Westminster a stone’s throw from Parliament.

“She was highly regarded and loved by our students and by her colleagues. She will be deeply missed by all of us,” Rachel Borland, the college principal, said in a statement.

Prime Minister Theresa May said the injured included 12 British, three French, two Romanians, four South Koreans, two from Greece and one each from Germany, Poland, Ireland, China and Italy. The U.S. State Department said it had reports of two U.S. citizens injured. Portuguese officials also said one person from Portugal was injured.

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